University of New England DUNE: DigitalUNE All Theses And Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 4-1-2014 Sex, Drugs, And Exotic Fantasy: Tangier And Orientalism Through Paul Bowles And Mohamed Choukri Bailey Booras University of New England Follow this and additional works at: http://dune.une.edu/theses Part of the Political Science Commons © 2014 Bailey Booras Preferred Citation Booras, Bailey, "Sex, Drugs, And Exotic Fantasy: Tangier And Orientalism Through Paul Bowles And Mohamed Choukri" (2014). All Theses And Dissertations. 16. http://dune.une.edu/theses/16 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at DUNE: DigitalUNE. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses And Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DUNE: DigitalUNE. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Sex, Drugs, and Exotic Fantasy: Tangier and Orientalism through Paul Bowles and Mohamed Choukri Bailey Booras PSC 491: Integrative Essay Undergraduate Senior Thesis Department of Political Science University of New England 21 April 2014 1 Introduction Western travelers, artists, writers, musicians, entrepreneurs and other curious minds have long flocked to the city of Tangier, located on the northern tip of Morocco. Situated on the edge of Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea, Tangier is a transnational city in terms of its culture, history, and influences. Located in a Muslim country, Tangier captured attention across the globe for being an artist’s haven in the 1940s-1960s. Authors Paul Bowles and Mohamed Choukri were inspired to write about life in this complex borderland city. These authors, one, an insider, writing from the experience of living in poverty, the other providing unique insider and outsider perspectives on the city as an American expatriate who lived there for 50 years, illustrate whether or not elements of Edward Said’s Orientalism, a term which he uses to describe the negative assumptions applied to the East by the West, are present in Tangier.